The best Firefish alternative for a small UK agency depends on budget and desk type. Here are six, with real prices and contract terms.
AI for recruitment agencies means using tools like Claude to do the repetitive work: searching your database, summarising CVs, writing job adverts and outreach, and pulling numbers out of your CRM. It doesn’t replace recruiters. The agencies getting the most
We’ve all felt the pain! Write the advert. Log into Indeed. Paste it in. Log into CV Library. Paste it in again, except now you’re reformatting it because CV Library’s decided it needs slightly different information to Indeed. Then finally
If you’re about to start a recruitment business, the honest advice is: keep it simple, protect your cash, pick a niche, and spend your time talking to clients and candidates rather than perfecting your tech. Most new agencies don’t fail
You can search CVs for free, but not on the big UK CV databases. Indeed, Reed, CV-Library and Totaljobs all charge to search and contact candidates, beyond the odd trial. What is free: LinkedIn’s basic search, Google X-ray searches, GitHub
A free ATS for recruiters lets you store candidates and track jobs without a subscription. Here's why we built Giig's, and the honest catch.
You grow recruitment revenue by winning better clients, filling roles faster and more consistently, and earning more from each placement. More calls and more emails only get you so far. The agencies growing in 2026 are boringly consistent with the
If you’ve just left the traditional corporate recruitment world to set up your own independent agency, you probably did two things on day one: designed your new fancy logo, and bought yourself a brand new domain name. You set up
Let’s be honest… There is nothing more soul-destroying in this job than spending hours crafting the perfect business development sequence… Sourcing the data… Personalising the openers… Checking the LinkedIn profile to find that one nugget of gold… Hitting send… And
The best CRM for a small recruitment agency is the one your whole team actually uses: candidates, clients and jobs in one place, set up in an afternoon, with no 12-month contract. For most agencies of 1 to 20 people
